Cubing Returns to PCMC 2025

Date: Mar 8 - 9, 2025
City: Pune, Maharashtra, India
Venue: Deokar's Banquet Hall
Address: Deokar's Banquet Hall, 60 feet, main, DP Rd, Pimple Gurav, Pune, Maharashtra 411061
Details: Event Hall
Contact: Organization team
Organizers: Kaivalya Rakesh Parange (कैवल्य राकेश पारंगे), Speedcubing Pune, and Vrunmay Nade
WCA Delegates: Arghadeep Mukherjee and Pranav Dandgaval

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Information

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• Participants must bring their own cubes.

• All the participants are requested to volunteer in the competition and every participant (except newcomers) will be assigned to a particular event they have to either judge, scramble, etc for the group/event.

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Events
Main event
Competitors: 73

Registration period: Online registration opened Thursday, January 30, 2025 at 1:30 AM UTC and closed Saturday, March 1, 2025 at 1:30 AM UTC.
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Kalidindi Hardhik Varma won with an average of 7.94 seconds in the 3x3x3 Cube event. Shrivatsa Patil finished second (8.18) and Arjun Mahuli finished third (8.28).

3x3x3 Cube

#	Name	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
1	Kalidindi Hardhik Varma	6.17	7.94	India	7.46	7.95	8.41	6.17	9.37
2	Shrivatsa Patil	5.12	8.18	India	11.62	8.32	7.27	5.12	8.94
3	Arjun Mahuli	7.50	8.28	India	8.21	7.81	8.83	7.50	9.06

2x2x2 Cube

#	Name	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
1	Dhruva Nikhil Jagtap	1.83	2.06	India	1.83	2.36	2.06	2.04	2.07
2	Shubham Maharana	1.46	2.31	India	1.46	4.70	1.59	3.39	1.94
3	Chinmay Shailesh Harhare	1.86	2.86	India	1.86	2.39	3.25	2.93	3.62

4x4x4 Cube

#	Name	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
1	Aarav Gandhi	26.67	28.60	India	26.67	28.52	42.18	28.59	28.70
2	Kalidindi Hardhik Varma	26.39	33.42	India	31.41	39.29	29.56	26.39	40.90
3	Shubham Maharana	32.09	37.55	India	36.82	36.27	40.01	39.56	32.09

5x5x5 Cube

#	Name	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
1	Aarav Gandhi	44.88	52.44	India	1:03.29	56.23	44.88	52.33	48.77
2	Kalidindi Hardhik Varma	55.82	58.25	India	59.19	1:03.99	58.54	57.02	55.82
3	Shubham Maharana	1:00.93	1:03.23	India	1:00.93	1:06.09	1:04.13	1:01.25	1:04.32

3x3x3 One-Handed

#	Name	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
1	Harsh Arvind Shelwatkar	11.74	12.65	India	13.47	11.74	12.50	16.04	11.97
2	Kalidindi Hardhik Varma	11.58	13.35	India	14.02	11.58	13.78	13.71	12.57
3	Shrivatsa Patil	15.33	17.31	India	19.33	15.44	17.17	19.71	15.33

Clock

#	Name	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
1	Joshua Allen Mangalapallil	4.09	5.50	India	9.92	4.09	7.62	4.34	4.55
2	Jay Nikhil Gadgil	5.34	6.10	India	5.80	6.47	6.02	5.34	DNF
3	Dhruva Nikhil Jagtap	5.60	6.31	India	7.33	5.61	6.15	7.18	5.60

Megaminx

#	Name	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
1	Sukant Koul	46.61	50.94	India	59.53	46.61	52.37	53.42	47.02
2	Shubham Maharana	49.29	58.75	India	58.08	49.29	1:01.61	1:09.21	56.57
3	Dhruva Nikhil Jagtap	57.45	1:00.70	India	1:08.91	1:02.84	59.99	59.26	57.45

Pyraminx

#	Name	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
1	Dhairya Chiragbhai Dave	1.66	2.46	India	2.99	1.66	2.27	3.11	2.12
2	Aayush Shah	1.85	2.84	India	DNF	1.85	2.55	3.11	2.85
3	Dhruva Nikhil Jagtap	3.28	4.41	India	5.26	3.28	4.83	3.82	4.58

Skewb

#	Name	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
1	Joshua Allen Mangalapallil	3.16	4.42	India	3.16	9.50	4.07	4.71	4.47
2	Aayush Shah	3.66	4.74	India	3.66	4.75	5.27	4.20	6.30
3	Sukant Koul	4.82	5.58	India	5.12	4.82	5.97	5.64	6.24

Square-1

#	Name	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
1	Pranav Dandgaval	9.70	11.67	India	9.70	12.28	11.03	11.71	14.38
2	Sukant Koul	10.21	13.14	India	12.73	16.61	10.21	11.15	15.53
3	Aayush Shah	10.58	13.14	India	10.58	15.48	13.26	10.67	19.93